EugeneHarperMD

Assistant Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

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301 University Blvd
Rte 0435
Galveston, TX 77550
Phone+1 409-747-1856

Eugene Paul Harper, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and clinician-educator in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the League City Campus. He completed fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City in June 2023 before joining the faculty at UTMB. He completed Internal Medicine residency at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida in 2021 where he worked on the C. Difficile Diagnostic Stewardship QI Group and was awarded the Jimmy Moss Community Service Award for his work with underserved populations in local safety-net clinics. In his last of year of medical school at Mayo, he rotated with the CDC Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch, working on multi-state foodborne Salmonella and E. coli outbreaks as well as One Health Zoonotic disease prioritization workshops. He holds an M.D. from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota and a B.S. in Anthropology from the University of Houston. Prior to his career in medicine, Dr. Harper served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an Infantry Squad Leader, completing two combat deployments to Iraq.

Dr. Harper has published research in collaboration with other physicians and CDC on the efficacy of antitoxin therapy in treatment of foodborne botulism in Clinical Infectious Diseases. His collaborative work in Quality was recently published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes. His clinical interests focus on diagnostic stewardship.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterFellowship, Infectious Disease, 2021 - 2023
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Jacksonville)Residency, Internal Medicine, 2018 - 2021
Mayo Clinic College of MedicineClass of 2018, MD
University of HoustonBachelor of Science, Anthropology, Summa Cum Laude, 2009 - 2012

Jimmy Moss Community Service Award Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2021
Mayo Brothers Award Mayo Clinic, 2018

PubMed

22 citations
Optimization of a Scoring System to Predict Microscopic Colitis in a Cohort of Patients With Chronic Diarrhea.
Thomas G. Cotter, Moritz Binder, Eugene P. Harper, Thomas C. Smyrk, Darrell S. Pardi
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. 2016-06-14
46 citations
Efficacy of Antitoxin Therapy in Treating Patients With Foodborne Botulism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cases, 1923-2016.
John C. O’Horo, Eugene P. Harper, Abdelghani El Rafei, Rashid Ali, Daniel C. DeSimone
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2018-01-15
5 citations
Reduction in Health Care Facility–Onset Clostridioides difficile Infection: A Quality Improvement Initiative
Himesh Zaver, Varun Moktan, Eugene P. Harper, Aman S. Bali, Ayan Nasir
Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Innovations, Quality & Outcomes. 2021-11-10

Journal Articles

ANCA-associated vasculitis and severe proximal muscle weakness
1. Dutcher JS, Bui AD, Tochukwu AI, Umadat G, Harper EP, Middlebrooks EH, Mohseni MM, and Phillips MB., Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)., 1/14/2021
19-Year-Old Man With Fevers, Abdominal Pain, and Cough
Espinosa SM, Harper EP, Phillips MB, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 10/1/2020
Efficacy of Antitoxin Therapy in Treating Patients With Foodborne Botulism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cases, 1923-2016
O'Horo JC, Harper EP, El Rafei A, Ali R, DeSimone DC, Sakusic A, Abu Saleh OM, Marcelin JR, Tan EM, Rao AK, Sobel J, Tosh PK., Clin Infect Dis., 12/27/2017
Optimization of a Scoring System to Predict Microscopic Colitis in a Cohort of Patients With Chronic Diarrhea
Cotter, Thomas G. MD; Binder, Moritz MD, MPH; Harper, Eugene P. BS; Smyrk, Thomas C. MD; Pardi, Darrell S. MD, MS, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 3/2017
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Abstracts/Posters

317. Case Series of Echinococcus Infections at Mayo Clinic Florida
1. Harper EP, Oring J, Powers H, Sherman C, Wilke B, Hata J, Nassar Z, Mendez J, and Libertin C., Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 12/31/2020

Infectious Diseases fellow, Antibiotic Management Program 2021 - Present
member, Antimicrobial stewardship subcommittee, Mayo Clinic in Florida 2018 - 2021